The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky

Trails in the Sky FC is the first part of Legend of Heroes 6 trilogy and features a great (and long) story slowly developed through the game, dosing serious moments and humour. Trails in the Sky features an major evolution in every aspect (dialogues, character construction, gameplay), comparing to the previous Gagharv games. The characters construction is one of the strenghts of the game, that features several main characters, all with their strong personalities. The gameplay is good, you can rotate the camera freely on the major part of the time and the combat is interesting, mixing a turn-based system with strategy-RPGs features. On the graphics side, the art is greatly done by Falcom, as in every game of the company. Characters portraits show their emotions on the dialogues (happiness, boredom, ...), contributing to the characterization. Music too is good, and although I would like to hear some more musics featured, the ones played are generally good. Also, XSEED's efforts on the localization shall be mentioned, as this version has widescreen support, on the contrary of the original PC version, has the voice acting featured on the PSP version, along with the retry feature, that lowers the difficulty of a lost battle and gives the player a immediate battle-retry option (for all this enhancements, praise Sara, XSEED's one person development area). Althrough I disabled the retry feature, because I like difficulty, some people might like it.

This is more than a JRPG. It is a JRPG that has been lovingly polished, perfected, and carefully localized for your enjoyment. It is not about the battle system or awesome cutscenes. Instead, it is about a well developed lengthy story of two young bracers and their journey across an entire continent as they discover the lands and people for the first time. If you relax and enjoy it as the extended holiday that it is, there is much to enjoy here.

I played this a few years ago on PSP and really enjoyed it. I liked the tactics based combat and the orb skill system. You really can't grind as your exp. diminishes against certain monsters as your level increases. There are no random encounters which I like but exploring dungeons can still be a slough as you can't just get around some monsters and tactics combat takes time even on easy monsters. One thing, get the Eagle Eye orb in the last city. It's in the sewer dungeon. It makes you invisible and I never would have finished the very final dungeon- too many floors, too many monsters- without it. The final boss I had a great- just-barely-beat-it-but-did on-the-first-try moment. If you can stand JRPG's at all the story isn't bad and by the end cut scene I was wishing I could start the next installment right away.

I played this game a long long time ago. In a language that much better than my English. The Turn-based combat system, 2D graphical, linear story, very restricted playing ways, a very commonly seen story line. Well those character portraits is cute and music is quite good. But from a Gaming view it seems to be very mediocre in most of aspect. But you know the best always surprise you in the most unsurprising aspect. I cant told you how surprising this game is. But when i first playing this game i just keep playing it day and night. Warning this game has a great chance letting you addicted to the world of classical JRPG!